“We can either live in a paranoid politically correct world frantically trying not to offend the Hitlers and Mohammeds, and blaming their victims when they kill, or we can be free men and women who have chosen to take the power to defend our rights into our own hands.

While a thousand organizations use the Holocaust as a platform for speeches about tolerance, Children Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors [Jews Can Shoot] is conducting firearms training… Freedom is not defended with empty idealism easily perverted into appeasement of evil, but with the force of arms.”

Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish blog

All too many of the other great tragedies of history - Stalin's atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few - were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece... If a few hundred Jewish fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.

Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Silveira v. Lockyer, 2003

Habah l'hargecha hashkem l'hargo -- "If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first."

Commentary

Updating The “Pie Chart” Target

by Doris Wise Montrose on January 23, 2025

You see it on every range. But does it actually work?

The classic “pie chart” target splits a bullseye target into wedges of varying sizes, each labeled with a common shooting error. My research into the history of pistol training led me to a 1962 NRA American Rifleman article written by USAF shooter Edmund Abel titled “Pistol Targets Talk”, which was sold as a reprint and included in NRA publications. It listed errors that a right-handed bullseye shooter might make, with example targets showing where those failed shots are likely to hit. The pie chart assumes that the pistol is zeroed and correctly fired shots will hit the bullseye center.

Abel’s original list of eight common errors were as follows:

Thumbing – pushing the thumb against the frame as the trigger finger presses the trigger
Heeling – pushing the muzzle up with the heel of the palm as the trigger is pressed

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"All too many of the other great tragedies of history—Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few—were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. ... If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars." — Silveira v Lockyer, (9th Cir. 2003) (Kozinski, J. dissenting.)